Eastern Oklahoma Woman Rides Out Tornado In Trailer Home

Audrey Graham is ready to find a new place to live after riding out Thursday morning's storm in her unanchored trailer home, and seeing what the storm did to her neighbor's car. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12474543">National Weather Service Rates Sapulpa Tornado EF-2</a> | <a href="http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12476528">Storm Damage Slideshows</a>

Thursday, May 13th 2010, 4:18 pm

By: News On 6

Eastern Oklahoma Woman Rides Out Tornado In Trailer Home

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NEAR WYANDOTTE, OK -- Audrey Graham is ready to find a new place to live after riding out Thursday morning's storm in her unanchored trailer home.

Graham, 40, says she'd just let her dog out at about 6 a.m. when she heard a noise that sounded like a bus or a train approaching her home. She ran outside to find her dog, a yellow lab named Cowboy, when the storm hit.

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She says her trailer sits on the highest point in Ottawa County, about three miles from Tiff City, Missouri.

The storm lifted the trailer off the ground and set it back down, but didn't do any damage. "This trailer kind of lifted up and the floor kind of flexed, but that was it," Graham said. "All I can say is that God was watching over me, because this thing's not tied down."

Her neighbors weren't so lucky.

Graham took photos of what's left of a neighbor's barn, and of another neighbor's car lifted into the air by the root ball of a downed tree then shared them with NewsOn6.com by emailing them to pics@newson6.net.

She says the car is owned by an older woman who couldn't accept what her eyes were telling her when she saw what had happened.

"She's just stunned. She can't believe it," said Graham.

Graham said the neighbor doesn't know where to begin to try to get her car down. The incident broke the back window of the car, but apparently didn't do any other damage to it.

Graham can't understand why her trailer was spared serious damage when her neighbors were not. She said it may be because she had her trees trimmed after spending 28 days without power in the last ice storm.

But Graham said she's ready to move to a home with a strong foundation. "I'm done with this trailer. I'm definitely going to check into a storm shelter."

She found Cowboy about an hour after the storm hit, trapped under a smashed tree. He was a little scared but otherwise unhurt.

News On 6 Reporter Dan Bewley will follow up on this story in the Friday 5 p.m. newscast.